Show full directory path in Finder window title bars
Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, Command Line, Customize, 10.5
The geekier amongst us and those familiar with Unix should really like this trick. You can have Mac OS X 10.5 display the full directory path in the Finder window title bar by issuing a simple command from the Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Then you’ll want to kill the Finder for changes to take effect:
killall Finder
To disable the full path title bars and revert back to the default, simply repeat the command with NO instead of YES as the operator:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool NO
killall Finder
Note: this apparently only works within Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (thanks kg!)
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Comments: 14
Comment from kg
Time: December 2, 2007, 12:31 pm
Sadly, it has no effect in 10.4.
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Comment from jhm
Time: December 3, 2007, 5:36 am
Thanks*10^6!
Comment from makis
Time: December 3, 2007, 7:14 am
great tip, thanks !
Comment from calvin
Time: December 3, 2007, 8:52 am
This worked, but caused an intended side effect.
My iTunes library lives on an external drive connected to an Airport Extreme.
With full-directory paths displayed, the external drive could be seen but would not fully mount. iTunes would not work, and I could not see the directories on that external drive from Finder.
Thankfully the author included instructions for how to reverse the process. Things went back to normal immediately.
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Comment from Kevin
Time: January 11, 2008, 9:52 pm
You just made my day 
Im an newly Mac convert and I missed this from the Windows world.
Comment from Ista
Time: January 30, 2008, 7:28 am
Um, if you want to see the full path, why don’t you just enable it in the view menu?
Comment from doctor
Time: January 31, 2008, 6:26 pm
now that is cool
But is there a way to edit that path live in the title bar????
Comment from Joey D
Time: February 1, 2008, 6:01 am
Nice. Thanks a lot it saves me time.
Comment from S. Biswas
Time: April 2, 2008, 12:28 am
Not working in 10.4
Comment from Claus Larsen
Time: June 5, 2008, 3:36 am
Nice tip, but I am missing one thing in my title bar, the share name.
I connect to a lot of Linux boxes which has the same directory setup and share names, and without the share name in the title, it is not easy to identify which server I am on.
Any ideas?
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